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I recently published a personal reflection about something I did not expect to connect so strongly: Karate and engineering leadership. As of writing the article, I have practiced karate for more than 20 years. For a long time, karate was karate, and work was work. But over time, especially around ar
TL;DR: To add Stripe subscriptions to an AI-built app, create your plans as Products and Prices in Stripe, send users to Stripe Checkout to subscribe, store the resulting customer and subscription IDs against your user records, and verify Stripe webhooks to keep access in sync. The API call is easy;
Securing Your Virtual Network with Subnets and Network Security Groups In Part 1, we built the foundation of our Azure environment: a resource group, a virtual network, a virtual machine, and a storage account. Now it's time to put that network to work. In this post, we are playing the role of an Az
Ask Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot to add a dependency and it names one — instantly, confidently. That confidence comes from training recall: a snapshot of scraped code frozen at a cutoff date. So the agent can't know your team already has an internal, audited library for this. It can't know the pa
TL;DR: Both Lovable and Velra can generate Stripe code, but they 'ship Stripe' differently. Lovable is excellent at turning a prompt into a polished React app and can scaffold Stripe checkout, though full subscription billing usually needs manual wiring. Velra goes further on monetization and owners
TL;DR: Yes, you can build a SaaS without coding using AI app builders and no-code platforms — but actually charging for it means three things most demos skip: real Stripe subscription billing, authenticated user accounts, and ownership of your code and customer data. Choose a tool that connects paym
TL;DR: The best Lovable alternatives in 2026 are Bolt.new, v0 by Vercel, Replit Agent, Base44, Bubble, Cursor, and Velra — each strong for a different job. Pick Bolt or v0 for fast front-end prototypes, Replit or Cursor for full-stack control, Bubble for complex no-code apps, and Velra if you want a
My EC2 instance has a public IP address. It has zero inbound firewall rules. And yet I can reach my AI agent from my phone on Telegram, pull up a full web workspace in my browser, and run shell commands on it — all without opening a single port, without a VPN, and without SSH. The latest version als
When I sat down to build Aveliq, I had one goal: give every Nigerian student access to tools that actually help them study smarter. Not a repackaged ChatGPT wrapper. Not another generic quiz app. Something built specifically for WAEC, JAMB, NECO and Post-UTME — the exams that actually determine the
When we build backend systems, especially APIs and microservices, debugging production issues is rarely about reading one log line. A single request may pass through an API Gateway, an authentication service, an order service, a payment service, a message broker, and maybe a background worker. Each
Bitcoin to $500K, Ethereum to $40K, and Aave to $3,500 by the end of 2030? Standard Chartered just laid out some bullish price targets.
Superhuman Inc., the company formerly known as Grammarly, said today it has agreed to acquire GPTZero Inc., the startup whose detection tools tell teachers, editors and hiring managers when a piece of writing came from a machine. The acquisition price was not disclosed. The acquisition is arguably i
Qualcomm Inc.’s stock jumped 14% in after-hours trading today after it shared a series of updates about its artificial intelligence roadmap. The company announced plans to acquire an inference software startup called Modular Inc. and previewed two upcoming AI chips. Additionally, Qualcomm significan
Here's how to watch Scotland vs Brazil as Steve Clarke's side look to contain Neymar in Miami and secure a spot in the World Cup knockout rounds
TCL’s NXTPAPER tablets let you instantly switch from full color to black and white for a more eye-friendly reading experience and they’re great for drawing too.
FreeBSD has a reputation for being difficult, but using it as a daily driver showed me why that reputation misses the point.
After outcry about the price of the Callback 8020, Commodore drops the price $100.
Rolling out now, the Instagram app has added support for watching Reels on your TV using Google Cast.
Managing school-issued Macs and iPads has always been a balancing act between IT control and parent visibility when the devices go home. Today, Mosyle has announced Mosyle@Home, aimed at solving this problem. This new platform gives parents and guardians an official way to manage school devices afte
It's not the $80 physical edition we deserve, and it's also not the one we need right now.
